Dell's offerings are the easiest to repair and the Microsoft Surface Pro is by far the most difficult, according to a recently released tablet reliability list.
Ranked from 10 (the easiest) to one (the most difficult), iFixit has ranked a number of the most popular tablets on the market in terms of how simple it is to fix them when things go wrong. The Dell XPS 10 comes out on top, closely followed by the Amazon Kindle Fireand the Dell Streak, all of which are easy to open and use standard screws and fixings. However, the bottom end of the scale is dominated by Apple and Microsoft. The Surface RT scores 4 (compared with the Dell XPS 10's score of 9), the Apple iPad fourth generation and iPad Mini both score 2, and bottom of the pile is the Microsoft Surface Pro which scores 1 due to how the tablet is glued together and the fact that simply trying to open it risks shearing the cables to its display.
Described by tech blog Tech Crunch as a "how-to site for crazy people," iFixit has been taking the latest technological offerings from the world's leading manufacturers, dismantling them and then putting them back together again for years for no other reason than to find out what's inside and to make a decision as to how easy said item would be to repair.
The site's goal has always been to create a living, online repair manual that anyone can access and edit in order to fix any type of consumer device from an electric guitar to a flagship smartphone. The results are part of a new dedicated platform at http://www.ifixit.com/Tablet_Repairability that iFixit hopes will make it easier for consumers to learn more about tablets and help inform their buying decisions.
The site also hopes that by building such a platform it can influence manufacturers' approach to building devices that last longer because they are easier to repair.
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